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18 September–4 October 2026

Curated by Francesca Marcaccio

Private View: Thursday, 17 September 2026, 6:00 pm

Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm

Imprints of Becoming: Traces, Temporalities, and the Unfixed Paradise brings together nine artists whose practices explore transformation as an ongoing condition.

Curated by Francesca Marcaccio, the exhibition brings together photography, sculpture, sound,
installation, and performance to consider how bodies, memories, histories, and
environments are continually shaped by time and encounter.

Featuring Svetlana Bailey, Marianne Bjørnmyr, Rachelle Bussières, Jenny Calivas, Simone
Douglas, S. Emsaki, Stephanie Hanes, Maria de Victoria, and Nina Schuiki, the exhibition
approaches artworks as sites of change rather than fixed objects.

Across the exhibition,processes of melting, erosion, burial, immersion, growth, disappearance, light, and sound become ways of exploring how experience leaves material traces. At the centre of Imprints
of Becoming is the idea of “haptic archaeology”—an excavation through touch, pressure,
immersion, light, and sustained attention. Matter becomes a recording surface, while the
body functions as both sensor and archive. The artists engage with time on multiple scales.
S. Emsaki combines ancient clay with contemporary marine debris, bringing geological
history and environmental crisis into dialogue. Svetlana Bailey and Stephanie Hanes evoke
thawing, erosion, germination, and growth, while Nina Schuiki works with glass, wax, and
light to create forms suspended between past, present, and future.
Questions of body, place, and memory emerge through Jenny Calivas’ exploration of burial
and immersion and Marianne Bjørnmyr’s investigation of how history becomes embedded in
material and geographical forms. Rachelle Bussières works with light and absence, creating
luminous photograms that reveal what remains when the physical object disappears. Maria
de Victoria introduces the living body through performance, exploring presence, duration,
and encounter.
Through light, celestial phenomena, salt, and sound, Simone Douglas connects terrestrial
experience to larger cosmic and environmental rhythms, treating landscape as a resonant
archive shaped by memory, silence, and vibration. Together, the works propose a world
defined not by fixed identities or completed histories, but by continual processes of
becoming. Imprints of Becoming asks what persists, what dissolves, and how bodies,
places, and histories continually leave their mark upon one another.
The exhibition’s “unfixed paradise” is not an idealised destination, but a condition that
emerges through relation, attention, and transformation. It invites viewers to consider how
we are shaped by the world around us—and how, in turn, we continually imprint ourselves
upon it.

Artists: Svetlana Bailey, Marianne Bjørnmyr, Rachelle Bussières, Jenny Calivas, Simone
Douglas, S. Emsaki, Stephanie Hanes, Maria de Victoria, Nina Schuiki.